Germany's second chance: trust, justice, and democratization

by Sa'adah, Anne

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Title Statements

Full title :Germany's second chance : trust, justice, and democratization / Anne Sa'adah.

Summary

How does a country reconstitute itself as a functioning democracy after a period of dictatorship? In this new book, Anne Sa'adah explores twentieth-century Germany's second chances. Drawing on evidence from intellectual debates, trials, literary works, controversies about the actions of public figures, and partisan competition, Sa'adah analyzes German responses to the problem of reconciliation after 1945 and again after 1989. She depicts the frustrations, moral and political ambiguities, and disappointments inherent to even successful processes of democratization. She constantly underscores the difficult trade-off between achieving a modicum of justice and securing the legitimacy and stability of the new regime. A strategy of reconciliation emphasizing outward conformity to democratic norms and behavior, she argues, has a greater chance of sustaining a new and fragile democracy than do more direct attempts to punish past misdeeds and alter people's inner convictions.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 352 pages)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocm49848323
LC Classification:JN3971.A91
Dewey Decimal:320.943/09/049

Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

Subjects

Allemagne -- Politique et gouvernement … Allemagne (Est) -- Politique et gouvern… Allemagne (Ouest) -- Politique et gouve… Changement social -- Allemagne democracy Democracy -- Germany Démocratie Démocratie -- Allemagne Démocratisation -- Allemagne Democratization Democratization -- Germany Demokratie Deutschland Duitse hereniging Germany Germany (East) Germany (East) -- Politics and governme… Germany (West) Germany (West) -- Politics and governme… Histoire sociale -- 20e siècle